The Cincinnatus of Wasilla

Bill Kristol callsfor Sarah Palin to get into the race for some unnamed Cincinnatus to step off her snowmobile throw down his plow and come forth to save the Republic:

And it is a moment, as you prepare to cast your vote, for others to reflect on whether they don’t owe it to their country to step forward. As this is no time for voters to choose fecklessly, it is no time for leaders to duck responsibility. Those who have stood aside—and who now may have concluded, as they may not have when they announced their original decision, that the current field is lacking—will surely hear the words of Thomas Paine echoing down the centuries: “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

What are you, trying to win the Pulitzer for understatement, or something?

That said, oh please, please, let her run! Bring it, girl!

America has reached new levels of gloom since she drifted off. We need her, with her McCarthyite “pallin’ around” charges, her hysteria over the “Ground Zero Mosque,” her unmatched-for-hallucinatoriness references to the founding fathers.

Since the demise of Spiro Agnew (yeah, I know, I’m old–just you wait) I’ve never quite felt that America was really America anymore.

What a load of garbage, especially Kristol’s use of Tom Paine’s quote about summer soldiers and sunshine patriots. If anyone ever qualified as a summer soldier and sunshine patriot it’s little Billy Kristol.

All of this has never made sense to me because she has always seemed from the start to be so mediocre—an affable and nice person, but probably not best as President.

Sarah Palin is anything but “affable and nice”. She’s paranoid, petty and insanely vindictive as shown by her behavior during the scandal that later became known as “Troopergate” and her behavior towards Lisa Murkowski in the 2010 election, where she backed a manifestly unqualified candidate who won the Republican primary but lost the election to Murkowski.

To these wise observations, I can add nothing. I believe that leaves us with President Obama for another four years. (I know, you’re tired of hearing that, because you desperately want someone substantially different… but those on offer are SO lacking! Maybe there is a reason for that?

I would like to see a replacement VP though. Biden has been demonstrating since Jan 20, 2009, why he never got out of single digits as a candidate for president. I wouldn’t mind seeing Buddy Roemer on the ticket (although Roemer might). There are some at Front Porch Republic who would root for Russ Feingold.

Um, am I missing your attempt at humor here? Why should I believe that he’s not talking about Christie, Daniels, Jindal, Pawlenty, Jeb, etc? What possible reason is there to believe he’s talking about Sarah Palin?

She understands something about crony capitalism and the contempt of the corrupt élites for ordinary people that none of the other candidates does. That alone doesn’t make her qualified for the Presidency, but it’s something.

We should not take this lightly as generations of Kristols and Podhoritzise grace the patriot graveyards! Do not slight the admonitions of our ancestral betters. Read the voice of genuine American patriotism as it is revealed to us on the pages of the Weekly Standard.

My cousin lives near her in Wasilla and he thinks she is awesome. But you don’t want my cousin or his ilk anywhere the levers of power. When he was a surly teenage boy he got a book entitled “Live in the Woods on Pennies a Day.” O how we mocked, and O how he believed.

I will give her the total benefit of the doubt and just say that she’s in a different world than any of us have ever enjoyed. There is a certain luxury to an extraction economy. Strong backs and weak minds are paid handsomely to rape and pillage the very land they depend on to hunt and fish their sustenance. By the time they figure out how thoroughly they have been “extracted” it is too late.

The ONLY credit I give to Sarah Palin is that she has figured out how badly the citizens of Alaska get sacrificed on the altar of the extraction economy. As an Alaskan she’s going to drive the highest possible price for the screwing. But as a national political figure there is no way in hell she will look out for individuals in individual states–it’ll be drill and kill baby as long as nobody in southeast Alaska gets gaffed.

I doubt Kriston means for his readers to conjure up Palin, as he has rather publically soured on her. I remember a particular blogger who had a manic infatuation with Palin, but he cooled on her too. People do change.

I think he might be calling for, once again–like so many others have been–Christie to change his mind and run. I’m not sure if he meant Palin. Or perhaps he meant either or both (?). Who would you like to see run, Rod? You don’t seem too impressed with any candidate. Or, have you endorsed a candidate, but I missed the post? And if you have no preferred candidate, do you think it even matters if the GOP candidate wins?

I would like to see a replacement VP though. Biden has been demonstrating since Jan 20, 2009, why he never got out of single digits as a candidate for president.

I disagree – I mean, look at some of the other buffoons and stooges that have filled that office in recent history: Quayle, Agnew, Mondale… even Cheney in his less malevolent moments was kind of of a dolt, shooting people in the face, and such. I think Biden is perfect company.

“What a load of garbage, especially Kristol’s use of Tom Paine’s quote about summer soldiers and sunshine patriots. If anyone ever qualified as a summer soldier and sunshine patriot it’s little Billy Kristol.”

Wile E. Quixote, you give Bill Kristol way too much credit. When it came to actual soldiering, he demonstated that he was a Man for No Season. Of course, that didn’t stop him from falling in love with every war that came along and conjuring up many more for “us” to fight. As I recall, the first issue of The Weakly Standard in 1997 promoted a war with Saddam Hussein.